Bulgarian nationalist eyes Odessa region post-war. If the Romanians are allowed to vote (and not have the vote cancelled afterward) in May this could be interesting if the war drags on into the summer. Notice the Revival Party is now the third largest in the country, and as with Georgia is pushing a 'foreign agent' law there. Our
FARA law dates to the 1930's and isn't real controversial but for 'some' reason the State Department/CIA are ferociously opposed to other countries adopting such legislation.
Notice the
Bulgarian parliament backed out of signing a bilateral deal with Ukraine after Trump was elected. Now, I really have tried to figure out the history and demographics of this region, but it is tough.
Here is a fairly pro-Romanian take on the WW2 (and prior) tragic/anti-semitic/nazi/Soviet period:
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Let me be clear nobody in the Romanian government originally wanted to push past the boundaries of Bessarabia, as Odessa and the area towards the Bug River were not, and had never been, majority ethnic Romanian/Moldovan lands. What the Romanian government really wanted was Transylvania back. But, given the way the war went, Romania went ahead and took over Odessa (and the region) anyway, making Odessa the capital of Transnistria, which was ruled by a Romanian governor. It's true that Romania never formally annexed Transnistria, but it looks to me (and several prominent historians) like it would've eventually happened had not the vast majority of the Romanian Army been called up to invade the Soviet Union.
So, as I wrote in my piece Fury Unleashed, Romania ****ed up literally everything in World War 2. They lost Transylvania to their allies. The Romanian government hated Jews, tried to exterminate them, but then realized that their economy couldn't survive without them. The Romanian government was pro-Germany even though Germany mistreated Romania badly (causing widespread inflation and deficits due to the German policy of not paying for Romanian goods during the war). They were foolishly anti-Russian due to 20 years of stupidity and greed over wanting Bessarabia. And then Romanian troops got used as cannon fodder in the Battle of Stalingrad, losing more men than all of the other German allies combined.
And then the "savior" king Mihai ended up being a Soviet pawn until domestic Communists took over. Meanwhile even more Romanian troops died as the Soviets used them as cannon fodder to mop up resistance in Hungary and onwards westward to Germany. At the end of the war, Romania was devastated, the economy in ruins, hundreds of thousands of people killed for nothing, and (southern) Dobruja and Bessarabia were lost forever.
And, as a final insult, the Soviet Union also snatched away (southern) Bukovina, which had never been a Russian area of interest and was, on the contrary, a majority-Romanian area. It wasn't even mentioned in the original Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement. So why did the Soviets suddenly decide they wanted Cernauti halfway through the war?
The answer lies with a very cunning Communist leader in Ukraine, a man by the name of Nikita Kruschev. It was Kruschev who convinced Stalin that Cernauti had historically been part of Ukraine (not true). And it was in 1954, when Kruschev was the leader of the Soviet Union, that he transferred Crimea to Ukraine, a move that led to disastrous consequences in early 2014.
Today, Odessa remains a Jew-free barely Ukrainian city run by Georgian criminals with nary a Moldovan or Romanian in sight, but a beautiful town for tourists to visit
It's apparently mostly Romanian today (Bessarabian demographics), and around 107 years ago had united with Romania:
I post that just because I think in a post-war settlement, if Odessa were ceded to part of Romania or even Bulgaria, it would help assuage Russian concerns about future actions from the Ukrainian remnant out of Kiev. (Notice Medvedev has repeatedly termed Odessa a Russian city). I'd also think it would be preferable for actual Odessans, regardless of the current demographic breakdown, to be part of those two countries vs. Kiev or Moscow, plus it would cut off much of Kiev's ability to hold Europe hostage again from natural gas flows. Moldova of course is another option. Just stop these coups/pointless escalations toward a wider war:
I do.
To the last Ukrainian, forever war, comrades.
